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Decibel Philly Metal & Beer Fest 2025 Notes Part II: Day One, The Fillmore by J †Johnson
Show us your spirit balls, it’s Part II of JJ’s Decibel Philly Metal & Beer Fest 2025 Notes. Read the piece.
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The 2024 Chapbook Series is now available!
CDSOB’s first print chapbook series has arrived! Check out new collections from Juliet Cook, Christine Kanownik, Jonathan Minton, and Michael Sikkema! View the books. -
Friday Feature
Mini-reviews of horror movies, books, albums, and other cultural artifacts dropping every Friday.Now screening: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023)
Recent Work
The Cat's Paw
by Julia Rajagopalan
Be careful what you take home from the black tent at the farmers’ market. Wait a second... We haven’t seen that tent before! Today, we present Julia Rajagopalan’s story, “The Cat’s Paw.”
Published April 21, 2025
Decibel Philly Metal & Beer Fest 2025 Notes Part I: Pre-Fest, The Foundry by J †Johnson
Horns up🤘🏼 JJ crushes & gets crushed at Philly’s own Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest. This week, we feature Part I of their festival notes: Pre-Fest Thursday💀🍺
Published April 18, 2025
After Eden
by Daniel Beauregard
Find yourself a cup of tea or a glass of something & fall into the dizzy spell of this story from CDSOB regular Daniel Beauregard. You will come through it changed. Today, we are pleased to present “After Eden.”
Published April 14, 2025
X-Files, S.4, E.21
by Daniel C. Remein
The truth is out there in Daniel C. Remein’s dual ekphrastic notation: “it must have been loud when the screen was eaten” might take us to “the cause of symptoms is a sharp thing” or it might well lead us somewhere else.
Published April 7, 2025
Skull Brothers VS the Fog Monster
by Michael Sikkema
“There’s a reason there’s a skull in the baby stroller out front / OK but that motherfucker ain’t no harbinger.” Let’s all go to the sometimes room and respect the locals. Part Beckett play, part Night of the Living Dead, part paranoid Carpenter loop, total Michael Sikkema poem. Today we present “Skull Brothers VS the Fog Monster”💀💀🌫️👹
Published March 31, 2025
Fantastic Life: Or, Disney’s Dream Debased by J †Johnson
Are you a Fairy or a Pirate is the wrong question, though we can’t help asking: Where were you when shit got real at FantasticLand?
Published March 24, 2025
Two Poems
by Marta Núñez Pouzols
While we await the arrival of the giant squid & watch for blue whiskers, we ruminate on a tale as old as the marriage plot, in two poems by Marta Núñez Pouzols.
Published March 24, 2025
Illustrations
by Chris O'Neal
Artist Chris O’Neal recently designed some new metal logos for Cul-de-sac of Blood. Today we present a selected gallery of Chris’ illustration work.
Published March 17, 2025